<div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/13 Cornelius Mostert <<a href="mailto:corneliusmostert@googlemail.com">corneliusmostert@googlemail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hallo all I have a system that has problems to load the Gnome panels, It boots and the moment I log on I get the desk top but no panels In the past I could execute the 2 commandments to load or reload the panels if they frose: gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel killall gnome-panel and then the panels would auto load again, however at this stage I get this error on the first command and the panels does not load at all... Please have a look at this ... _______________________________________ [server]# gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel Failure during recursive unset of "/apps/panel": Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/" target="_blank">http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/</a> for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.) [server]# killall gnome-panel ________________________________________________ I know the system was a bit flake and will go to the mentioned website and Google of course but maybe you guys have a quick solution / idea thanx -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> Hi, Does this happen with any other user on your system? Can you try with a new user? Can you boot a failsafe GNOME session? If not, try running a failsafe xterm session and then running "gnome-session --debug 2>&1 | tee ~/gsm.log" and having a look at the output of gnome-session. Regards Chris